rechigo 293 Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 Is there any way to actually "Play" (read) books? I don't see any play option. I have my library type set to books and I've tried it on android and Emby Theater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36881 Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 Not yet. It's hard for us to find a lot of time to spend on books but hopefully in the future. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rechigo 293 Posted August 24, 2019 Author Share Posted August 24, 2019 I think most people would be satisfied as long as it works on apple + android + winphone. There isn't really a need for other platforms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dickydodah! 123 Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 On Windows there is a sort of work around. If you choose download and then Open With instead of Save File you can choose your ebook reader. Not ideal and may not work on other devices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibbes 429 Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 On Windows there is a sort of work around. If you choose download and then Open With instead of Save File you can choose your ebook reader. Not ideal and may not work on other devices. won't work on iOS... the whole OS is so locked down, there's hardly anything you can do... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rechigo 293 Posted August 25, 2019 Author Share Posted August 25, 2019 I see you could do this, but It's just a waste of time from my point of view as you aren't able to save your position, you'd be better off just saving it in Google drive and viewing it there as I believe it has a viewer which can display EBook files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibbes 429 Posted August 26, 2019 Share Posted August 26, 2019 I see you could do this, but It's just a waste of time from my point of view as you aren't able to save your position, you'd be better off just saving it in Google drive and viewing it there as I believe it has a viewer which can display EBook files There are a lot of apps that use Google drive for exactly that, including a few cross-OS ones... It kind of defeats the purpose of trying to have one server for all your media though... A server for ebooks, another for photos, something else again for audiobooks, then there are still comics and Of course the emby server for the rest. That's 5 different servers... Not everyone has the capacity for that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rechigo 293 Posted August 27, 2019 Author Share Posted August 27, 2019 I guess for the time being I'll try out this book server called Ubooquity (https://vaemendis.net/ubooquity/). I would really like Emby to have complete EBook support so I can have all my media in one place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chriswho 1 Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 I too would like this feature - particularly for Android. Please include comics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonNalley 25 Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Yep, eBooks, Comics, eZines, would all be nice to have. I have a ridiculously large collection of these, and would love to use Emby to read them and have proper metadata support for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anwar Hossain 0 Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 any update on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36881 Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 Just now, Anwar Hossain said: any update on this? Hi, not yet, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanzoX7 8 Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 I would like to raise my hand on this one. It would be very nice to have e-reader support in Emby. I couldn't figure how to make Calibre Web work with my AS5002T and Ubooquity seems to be a little too light in terms of metadata management. Mostly interested in having comic book support, for what it's worth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rechigo 293 Posted June 15, 2021 Author Share Posted June 15, 2021 25 minutes ago, HanzoX7 said: I would like to raise my hand on this one. It would be very nice to have e-reader support in Emby. I couldn't figure how to make Calibre Web work with my AS5002T and Ubooquity seems to be a little too light in terms of metadata management. Mostly interested in having comic book support, for what it's worth. Fwiw I've been told the Jellyfin server now has ebook support, I was thinking of giving it a go just for the ebook support. I'm not sure how good metadata support is since I haven't tried it myself yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanzoX7 8 Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 59 minutes ago, rechigo said: Fwiw I've been told the Jellyfin server now has ebook support, I was thinking of giving it a go just for the ebook support. I'm not sure how good metadata support is since I haven't tried it myself yet. I just checked out their demo @ https://demo.jellyfin.org/stable and it looks very similar to Emby. Turns out it's a fork of Emby. I'll play with it for a bit and see how it works. Thanks for the suggestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4328 Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 JellyFin for the most part is like using Emby from 3 years ago or a few major versions behind with the client support that Emby has. They have improved some areas but overall the first comment is pretty accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Econaut 1 Posted September 24, 2021 Share Posted September 24, 2021 Any update on getting an emby ebook reader? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36881 Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 Hi, not yet, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Econaut 1 Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 Perhaps at least adding an easy open to link for another local reader app to use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kandiman 14 Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 13 hours ago, Xen0sys said: Perhaps at least adding an easy open to link for another local reader app to use? That would be great and would like to see this happen, on iPad it should be fairly easy tap on the book to open it up in Apple Books? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick_K 6 Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 I would just like to be able to read my books/mags on my iPad/iPhone even if they have to be downloaded through Emby first. You can read PDF formatted files if you open up Emby using Safari, but its messy and Safari is not my preferred reading app. Be nice if you could Share/Download your book to Apple Books library which supports both PDF and MOBI via the Emby mobile app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36881 Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 15 hours ago, Mick_K said: I would just like to be able to read my books/mags on my iPad/iPhone even if they have to be downloaded through Emby first. You can read PDF formatted files if you open up Emby using Safari, but its messy and Safari is not my preferred reading app. Be nice if you could Share/Download your book to Apple Books library which supports both PDF and MOBI via the Emby mobile app. Hi, yes, more book features are coming in future updates. thanks for the feedback. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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